ok google finally noticed the code on my site , now im on "Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now. Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours." 67 hours of waiting here we go.

I put it in a new site yesterday noon, and this morning I already see stats. The features are cool for its price. Guess am not just one of those concerned with privacy implications of this product. I love good products, especially if it's free :o)

I am also unable to get Google to find my tracking code. I am guessing by the frequency of this problem in this forum that this is a Google issue.

I saw mention that someone said google shouldn't need to hit the page as it is a a remote javascript file and that is why no Google ip has mae any recent requests. That would be true for collecting the stats but presummably they must send off at least one hit to confirm the existance of the code in your source so that it can "turn on" your account or something. Otherwise putting the code in would just start tracking hits as the javascript file gets called when pages hits are made on your site. I also assume it needs to check it itself so that it won't accept javascript hits from another URL using your account number, otherwise I could check your source, add the code with your id and you would get results from my ste as well.

Has anyone who couldn't get Google to find the code on their site get anything different after some time?

Also where are the WW servers? The forum posts timestamps are 7 hours off my time. I am MST.

My stats are coming in, after around 24hrs. But didn't I read somewhere that after the reports start coming in, they should be updated hourly? The reports I'm looking at are already almost a day old.

Also, I hope Google doesn't work the results into their search engine rankings. It would be horrible if G started sending me even less traffic because certain pages always get bounced off of, or something.

Regarding the issue of downloading a 20k javascript file... once there are enough sites using Google Analytics, most of your users will already have the JavaScript file cached when they reach your site.

A wild guess... Could the difference be the result of ad-blocking? And if it is, could this be a metric for "guesstimating" what percentage of visitors are blocking ads? (And for a company who makes 90%+ of their revenue through online advertising, you can be sure that they have a vested interest in what that percentage is.)

Its been 2 days since I put the code up. Finaly earlier today it detected the code, and still no stats. It looks fairly powerful. But until the bugs are worked it this is the worst thing related to Google ever...

If they continue like this Google jokes are gonna be more popular than MS jokes.

Hi discobit, According to google engineers at the conference, they have no plans to accumulate, aggregate, or use any statistics you gather on your site using google analytics (urchin). I think the value to google is that by giving webmasters the tools necessary to optimize for conversion, we'll be more likely to increase ad spending. I do genuinely believe they're reaching out to us to give us the tools necessary to help enable the tail. I believe it is a wise business move that benefits everyone.

If I might paraphrase Matt Cutts today, he said to have some patience as the influx of new users is causing the stat delays. It should be remedied soon. Powerful programs like urchin require a great amount of processing power and I don't think they expected the surge of users.

Is it just me, or is the "unexpected surge" excuse becoming a common refrain with each new offering? I mean this isn't the first time users have swamped Google when trying out/downloading/utilising their latest product, and that just sours the user experience for all.

At times like these, I wonder if Google is somewhat masochistic - seems like they enjoy the occasional self-inflicted "poor man's" DDOS attack.